Monday, March 10, 2014

Well Go U.S.A. Tabs May 20 For The Blu-ray And DVD Launch Of Director Josh C. Waller's McCanick

Glee star Cory Monteith’s final film performance was
filmed and “in the can” when he died of a drug overdose in a Vancouver hotel
room on a summer’s day last year … a promising career cut short.

The film in question is
director Josh C. Waller’s taut police thriller, McCanick, which made its debut
at the Toronto International Film Festival last September and has subsequently
been picked up for domestic distribution by Well Go U.S.A.A theatrical break is planned for Mar. 21,
with Blu-ray and DVD editions following on May 20.

While the attention could
well be focused on Monteith’s screen farewell, make no mistake about it this is
David Morse’s film.He’s the title
character, Eugene "Mack" McCanick, a long-serving Philadelphia police
detective who begins his day with some trepidation about an evening reunion
with his estranged son.As the events
of the day unfold … those dinner plans will be the least of his worries.

He gets word that Simon
Weeks (Monteith) has gotten an unannounced early release from prison.This bit of news becomes the MacGuffin that
sets the story in motion.

McCanick flies into a
rage at the news, especially when he learns that Weeks has been out and on the
street for almost three months.Your
first knee-jerk reaction is, “why should it matter” … a seven year-old
conviction, he’s been free for three months and any secrets the young Weeks
might have had about McCanick’s involvement in his bust would have certainly
long since been revealed to others. Or, maybe not.

McCanick, with his partner,
detective Intrator (Mike Vogel) in tow launches an obsessive, seemingly
irrational search for the parole.Every
back alley; every drug den and just about every rat hole in Philly are given
the once over in a desperate day-long search for Weeks and the secrets he
possesses.Get in the way of McCanick’s
quest and you could be dead in a heartbeat … and that includes his partner!

As McCanick’s paranoia —
and violence — increases Waller begins to reveal, through a series of
flashbacks, the nature of Weeks’ crime and the relationship he had/has with the
detective working the case.Before
day’s end the “issue” will be resolved one way or another.

No word just yet on any
bonus features associated with the Blu-ray and DVD launch on May 20.